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    On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

    > Quite frankly the BDEV_* handling was and is a total mess IMHO, even if
    > it was written by you ;), there was no difference at all from many of
    > them, I didn't fixed that but I had to check all them on the differences
    > until I realized there was none. I also think the other things you

    There certainly _are_ differences (e.g. in handling the moment
    when you close them).

    > mentioned (besides the inode pinning bug, non critical) are not buggy

    _What_?

    int fd = open("/dev/ram0", O_RDWR);
    ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF);
    ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF);

    and you claim that resulting oops is not a bug?

    > (infact I never had a single report), but well we'll verify that in

    Richard, is that you? What had you done with real Andrea?

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